Category: Television

Kitchen Nightmares Sneek Peak: j. willy’s bar & grille, South Bend


The next season of Kitchen Nightmares starts in the Fall, but we’ve got a tip about one of the places that will be featured.

Gordon will be visiting j. willy’s bar & grille in South Bend, Indiana. A local paper covered the news.

What did Gordon think once he got there?

“This is a dynamic team,” Ramsay said, pointing to the j. willy’s crew. “We have the most amazing decor, the most amazing ribs, and the most amazing barbecue sauce.”

(Thanks to John)

Lost: Who Buried Danielle And Karl?


There have been a number of deaths in Lost over the last few episodes: the boat’s doctor, the boat’s captain, Alex, Karl, Danielle. One of the things that bothered me right away was: Who buried Danielle and Karl?

Think about that a minute. There are people invading the island, the two camps are split, and Ben sends Alex and Karl with Danielle away from camp to keep them safe. We see Danielle and Karl murdered right before Alex is carted away. Would the soldiers on the boat take the time to dig a grave for Danielle and Karl?

I don’t think they would have. They were in the middle of the jungle and out to get Ben. They had a hostage (Alex), and they needed to try and use her as leverage as soon as possible.

So, there are several distinct possibilities. The first: The Others buried them both. I think that’s the most likely possibility.

The second possibility: That wasn’t really Danielle in the grave, and Danielle herself buried Karl. This theory is the same, in reverse, of course – Karl could have buried Danielle). The face did look very much like Karl’s, but Danielle’s face didn’t look very much like her (see the picture).

The problem with this theory is, If it’s NOT her, who the heck is it? And, if you’re thinking that Miles knew about the graves – Well, he did, but that could have been Karl or Danielle (not both) saying something that lead him to dig them up.

The third possibility: Danielle and Karl really did die, and those are their bodies, but Danielle came back (like Yemi, Christian, etc) and buried the bodies herself. Now, THAT would be a weird thing to have to do for yourself…. But the most likely possibility, I think.

What do you think?

LOST: Shadowy Figure On The Plane

Here’s something to mull over the holiday weekend. Take a look at this picture from part 1 of the season 4 finale of LOST:

It looks pretty much how you remember it, right? But… What about that shadowy figure behind Karen Decker (she’s the Oceanic representative). What shadowy figure? Well, look at this:

It could just be a flight officer, but I consider that pretty unlikely, given that Jack and the rest were talking pretty openly about keeping quiet about what happened.

Who is that shadowy figure?

The 24 Movie details!


There’s a 24 movie coming later this year! The details are coming out about the show. It’ll air Nov 23rd, and will take place before the events in Season 7, which starts in January of next year.

More details at Ain’t It Cool News (Thanks to Andy!)

LOST: No Place Like Home Part 1

Spoilers ahead

This is it folks! Part 1 of the 2 part finale of LOST: No Place Like Home. You should have seen it by now, and if you haven’t… well, quit reading!

A few thoughts about last night’s show:

1) It was getting obvious, but we know for sure that a significant amount of time has transpired between the Oceanic 6 getting rescued and the season 3 finale. All those theories about why Aaron was so much bigger are out the door.

More significantly, Charlie and Christian didn’t show up to Hurley and Jack until well after the rescue. There wasn’t an immediate “You have to come back” message. The numbers showed up for Hurley, but that wasn’t much of a message. I have to wonder if they’re trying to get the Oceanic 6 to return because, as everyone probably already suspects, things back on the island didn’t go that well after they left.

Why wait that length of time? No telling, but I suspect that the “course corrections” in time DO take time. Your and my idea of what is a long time is a lot different in the grand scheme of things. Take Ben and Locke. If Locke was supposed to be on the island from childhood, and the island needed to get someone else there (Ben)… It took a pretty darn long time to arrange things to get Locke on that island.

Getting Charlie and Christian to the mainland a year or so after the rescue is probably the island’s idea of “quick”.

2) Notice how Daniel knew about the secondary plan AND had the logo of The Orchid station in his notebook? He’s been through this before, or at least witnessed something because he sure was in a hurry to get people off that island. I’m betting he doesn’t make it off the island before the move.

Great spiral design on that Orchid logo too.

3) Great “shout out” to the producers when Sawyer called The Other’s place “New Otherton”. The producers call it that on their podcast.

4) I liked that “Day 108” was mentioned in Karen Decker’s speech before the Ocean 6 press conference.

5) They’re really leading us to believe that Jin is dead. I sure hope he’s not.

6) Sun’s scene with her father was probably one of the very best of the whole season. If her father is involved in anyway with Widmore, she’ll find out. And if he’s not involved, Sun now has a LOT of resources at her command to help people get back to the island when the time comes. You KNOW that if Jin’s alive, she’ll be headed back.

7) Hurley’s chowing down on 15 year old crackers. My first thought was “Uuugh”. My second thought was: How did Ben know those were 15 years old? Did they do another island shift 15 years ago? Wasn’t The Purge about 12 years ago?

8) Hurley’s numbers are back. When I saw those, I thought: I wonder if those numbers are going to be significant in getting the island moved? Are they the combination or formula that has to be used?

9) The thing broadcasting on the boat is either a homing beacon Widmore had planted, or the transmission Michael’s been using with Ben.

10) The look on Jack’s face when he found out about Claire… Wow, what a way to find that out. And Claire’s mom had no idea that Aaron is her grandson. Jack still doesn’t know that something weird has happened to Claire.

11) After the scenes from the season 4 finale preview went black, we could hear Locke yelling “What did you do?” Sounds like things didn’t go according to plan.

What did you think of last night’s show?

Lost Live Blog: No Place Like Home Part 1

Update: I’ll post a write-up later. Overall, not the most exciting episode, but it was good!

Update: Two weeks from now scenes….ending with Locke yelling “What did you do?”

Update: Knocked out.

Update: Ben’s got a plan. Locke better hurry up.

Update: Richard Alpert and The Others. As Dave would say, it’d make a good name for a rock band.

Update: Oh oh… explosives. A lot. Never a good sign. Ah…But Michael knew about that, remember?

Update: Claire has to be one of the many reasons Jack wants to get back to the island. As things stand now, he doesn’t realize something weird has happened to Claire.

Update: Commercial

Update: Little did she know that Aaron was really her grand son.

Update: I knew that would freak him out.

Update: Jack finds out about Claire.

Update: Jack’s dad’s funeral. Everyone’s there too.

Update: Sawyer’s going after Hurley.

Update: Something broadcasting on the boat? Probably a transmission between Michael and Ben.

Update: Oh…and by the way, Michael is on the boat.

Update: First group to the boat.

Update: Wonder if those numbers are what’s needed to move the island?

Update: That’s the first time in a while we’ve seen the numbers.

Update: Commercials

Update: Oh oh…Keamy and Company are already at The Orchid.

Update: The numbers are on the odometer…. Creepy.

Update: Hurley’s dad fixed the car. Nice.

Update: Whispering noises like The Others, of course it’s a a party.

Update: A coconut?

Update: Back at the Hurley mansion… nice final backfire on the car.

Update: I have to say, I love the way Sun stood up to her father.

Update: Commercials

Update: Oh man… Two people responsible for Jin’s death? She considers her father one of those people… the other must be herself.

Update: YEAH, SUN! Bought out Dad! Good for her!

Update: Oh, man. I don’t like that Jin was on that boat… doesn’t bode well.

Update: Charlotte didn’t look to happy about being left.

Update: Drop off the baby… We have some Jack rescuing to do.

Update: 15 year old crackers. Pretty funny. But how does Ben know it was 15 years ago?

Update: Moving the island is dangerous and unpredictable.

Update: So far nothing island shattering.

Update: Commercials

Update: Meanwhile, Sayid’s been on a raft for a week.

Update: Sayid’s girl, Nadia!

Update: These reporters sure get to ask most of the questions. You think they’d pass that around.

Update: Only eight left?

Update: That island they washed up on sure looks like Hawaii.

Update: Day 108!

Update: Membata.

Update: Heh… “Hold up, you don’t get to die alone”.

Update: Woo! Sawyer called it “New Otherton”. (That’s the producer’s name for The Other’s camp).

Update: Sawyer and company!

Update: Back on the island, Jack’s really going quick. Maybe too quick, if he’s bleeding.

Update: I love that spiral on The Orchid logo too.

Update: Commercial

Update: Daniel knows what’s going to happen.

Update: Calling on the phone… bad idea, I think.

Update: Hurley’s folks, Sun’s folks, Jack’s Mom, no one for Kate or Sayid…

Update: Finally, they get to act like they’re on Hawaii.

Update: “We are in shock, Jack.” Great line. And they’re playing the “sad” Lost music. (Flight 1717)

Update: Ah….Oceanic 6 plane landing… That woman looks familiar.

Update: Previously on LOST….

Update: Shows that don’t start on the hour are really starting to tick me off.

I’ll be doing a live blog of tonight’s LOST: No Place Like Home. Stay tuned!

Michael Is Glad To Be Back On LOST


Harold Perrineau, who plays Michael on LOST, took a brief hiatus from LOST, but is glad to be back:

Nausea aside, the actor is relieved to once again be part of the Lost crew. His character, Michael, hadn’t been seen or heard from since motoring off the island in the Others’ boat with son Walt at the end of season two, leaving fans to wonder what the holy smoke monster had happened to them.

“It was time to come back,” Perrineau says. “Even if Michael was going to die, I [wanted] him to finish, as opposed to just disappearing.”

Question is, how long will Michael stay alive?

LOST: How To Move An Island


Popular Mechanics has an article that says it just might be possible to move the island using the electromagnetic fields of the island:

So just how can Locke move the island–-and where will he move it, for that matter? Michio Kaku, author of “Physics of the Impossible,” told us he thinks that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are using the island’s unique properties —namely its electromagnet and the Casimir Effect hinted at in the Orchid Station orientation video—to open a transversible wormhole to different points in time and space. (Über-baddie Keamy seemed to verify that when he pulled the Orchid-Station-emblazed “secondary protocol” from the ship’s safe. He said the document would tell him “where Linus is going. If Linus knows we’re going to torch the island, there’s only one place he could go.”)

Read the rest at Popular Mechanics.

(Via TVSquad)